Ivan Knight and the Imaginary Friends

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Ivan Knight and the Imaginary Friends is a musical project lead by singer and producer, Ivan Knight. In this project, Ivan plays around with storytelling and world building through songwriting, while also collaborating with other artists and finding ways to work in those collaborations with the world that he has established.

Ivan was signed with Flex Entertainment less than 24 hours after his debut album came out. Being an album produced by Ivan before signing with Flex,

the album has a more serious tone as well as a more rock oriented sound. The album features no guest vocalists. Now signed to flex, Ivan has started work on a new album with a more upbeat tone, and plans to collaborate with other artists as he expands his character library outside of his current protagonist of "The Frog".

The Frog
Before Ivan formed the imaginary friends, he always wanted to come up with characters (some of which he plans to explore and impersonate in future projects). When writing the first album however, Ivan had just come out of a terrible writer's block and was struggling at first to come up with a central character with their own backstory. Ivan decided to focus on coming up with an image, and after watching an old home VHS of him and his family at a Skydiving event back in 2001, he witnessed his older brother (who has four at the time) look into the camera and say "Frogs Rock!". While Ivan didn't understand the reference, that phrase stuck with him and he decided that painting his face in green paint to make him appear like a frog or an animal was a brilliant idea. Ivan felt that by covering the most expressive part of his face, he could remove himself from the music and anyone who listened to it could step in his place.

"I'm so fucking tired of people labelling an artist's sound based around what they look like or what their orientation is. Like, 'female fronted' or 'black fronted' or 'LGBT' they aren't genres! Executives don't care about that. My music is not 'autistic, androgenous, Buddhist rap' it's goddamn Frog Rock! You can be black, white, old, young, man, woman, straight, gay, you're still welcome to enjoy my music. I guess I wanted to make a statement with that whole green face thing. No one is focusing on the fact that I'm a man, or that I'm white, or that I'm a buddhist, they thinking about all the paint that's on my mug!".

With the Self Titled Album ending with a song that connotes suicide, it is left unclear if Ivan will return as The Frog or as another character.

Discography
(Released before signing to Flex)
 * Fool In The Fire (Single)
 * My World E.P. (e.p)
 * Romantic Space (single)
 * The King E.P. (e.p)
 * A Trip To The Sea (single)
 * Heaven (single)
 * Good Fire - Voda Wake (guest artist)
 * Buddy Don't Go (single)
 * Ivan Knight and the Imaginary Friends (album)